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Sujit Chowdhury, a forward thinking global trade activist and an expert on human rights, was the keynote speaker on Friday night at the Human Rights Day Celebration put on by the Bermuda Human Rights Commission. Mr. Chowdhury is himself a political r...
DATE: Dec 11, 2006
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Finance Minister Paula Cox has refused a request by a group of dissident members of the Old Colony Club (OCC) who had asked her to appoint an inspector to investigate the controversial sale of the Club to the Argus Group of Companies.
In a letter add...
DATE: Dec 11, 2006
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Life has dramatically changed pace for Larry Mussenden who, two months ago, was in the heart of Government as a young, reforming Attorney General in Alex Scott's Cabinet.
Despite his zeal and energy in introducing a number of reforms to Bermuda's cre...
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Deputy Opposition Leader Grant Gibbons was critical of the Finance Ministry on several fronts ? first for the way it handled the IPOC Group International Growth Fund.
The mutual fund is swamped in suggestions of scandal including illegal activity and...
DATE: Dec 11, 2006
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The normally sleepy village of Somerset was a hive of activity at noon on Saturday as rumours of a supposed tidal wave spread like wildfire.
Families began fleeing their homes, shops closed for business and Police officers directed traffic east while...
DATE: Dec 11, 2006
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Sam Strangeways
lasses teaching youngsters the do's and don'ts of festive decorum have proved a soaraway success. And the brains behind Bermuda's school of etiquette believes the sessions show that the future of modern manners on the Island is in safe hands.
Nearly ...
DATE: Dec 11, 2006
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CHICAGO (AP) - A gunman in a downtown skyscraper shot four people, killing three of them, and took a hostage before being killed after police fired at him, authorities said.
The shootings Friday in the top floor of the 38-story Citigroup Center, whic...
DATE: Dec 11, 2006
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ow that the panic has apparently washed away with the tide, maybe it?s safe to laugh ? just a little. Many, no doubt, had a chuckle yesterday over a plate of cod fish and potatoes. How could you not?
The stories out of Somerset and Dockyard flowed do...
DATE: Dec 11, 2006
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In his quest to get more Bermudians hired in the hospitality and construction industries, Minister Derrick Burgess may be up against a stonewall of apathy.
?Nonetheless,? the Labour and Immigration Minister said on the House of Assembly floor on Frid...
DATE: Dec 11, 2006
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What is Riders For Health?
A global, non-profit organisation that has worked for more than 15 years on the problems of delivering health care in Africa.
Riders for Health provide health workers in Africa with motorcycles, training and protective clot...
DATE: Dec 09, 2006
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